Latest Changes - Apr 9, 2017

This deck is pretty good in current meta, with a decent winning rate against pirate warriors and a dominating advantage against many other decks. This deck requires a lot of skills to play. Practice to get a feel of it under different situations.

The only goal is to survive. You almost auto-win if your opponent can't kill you in the first few turns. Having Reno greatly increase your chance of winning, but you also need a dreadsteed to activate Reno. Token druid and zoo are not fast enough as you have many board clearance. For mulligan you should be looking for aoe, heal, taunt, low-cost spells/creatures, Reno and one dreadsteed.

2. OTK

This is a speed race. Your goal is to: 1. keep yourself very healthy 2. lower your opponent's health and prepare for lethal as early as possible. For mulligan you should keep dreadsteed, umbra, bronzebeard, Kazakus(for direct damage and armor), dirty rat(to sabotage OTK component), Mal'ganis, power overwhelming.

3. Mid/Late non-OTK decks.

This is the most favorable matchup. You should be dominating most games against non-pirate warriors and druid, as they don't have good answers to dreadsteed. Go directly for your winning conditions: dreadsteed, umbra. You may keep some removal and heal as you see fit. If you are facing priest or shaman, you might want to think twice about playing dreadsteed directly as they can get hexed/devoluted/mind-controled. Try to lure out your opponent's removals and wait for the dreadsteed/umbra combo. Also, mulligan against priest you may want to keep sacrificial pact and Jaraxxus. Think twice before playing dirty rat against priest as they might OTK you with it.

Comments

Hey Melody! Just wanted to ask you how performs this deck now on the ladder? with all the midrange pallys from the VS Meta Snapshot my Combolock with Leeroy Po has a hard time. have you already hit legend with the steeds this month?

Just wanted to ask, what is your take on Mistress of Mixtures vs. Zombie Chow? I usually prefer the extra 1 health that Zombie Chow has, but the heal on Mistress of Mixtures can make it a better late game draw. I have found Dreadsteed decks to be seriously powerful since the introduction of Umbra, and congrats on getting a mention in the VS Report.

I've thought of Ravenous Pterrordax but I don't see a reason to include it since its not really good against the hard matchups.

The thing with Dreadsteed [/card]is that it can beat any deck as long as you get your pieces in time without loosing too much hp. The only really unwinnable matchup is midrange hunter with a good start. since they have [card]steady shot they can get in the last points of dmg as well as keeping a solid board early.

The other hard (sometimes at least) matchup is pirates and quest rogue and we only need better cards to make these matchups more favorable.

Hope I was able to help at least a little and you can always ask if you're wondering about somthing else

I've been playing Dreadsteed for over 1.5 years and the matches I've had with the deck is incredible but its only now with Spiritsinger Umbra that it is good enough to play to win and not just for fun. I'm constantly looking to improve my list and it is quite similar to yours. I've replaced the second Dreadsteed with Sense Demons recently. Or rather, I've been playing with Sense Demons for a LOOONG time and it has definitly helped me out a lot, you should test it out (I dont run Spellbreaker). It can fetch Dreadsteed, Mal'Ganis and Lord Jaraxxus

One card I can't understan though is Corrupting Mist. I just don't see a use of it. They still have time to attack you and if you have your Dreadsteed out they wont survive to remove the threats they've just summoned (unless you kill your Dreadsteeds). I'd love to hear why you have chosen to include it in your list. (I'm also wondering about spellbraker, what do we need to silence?)

I ditched the second dreadsteed and kelthuzad and subbed n'zoth + voidcaller I feel like overall this is faster because voidcaller can pull malganis vs pirates - autowin against a big portion of the meta. I have a 100% winrate vs pirates after 1 game with that change.

also I feel like a dreadsteed army is slow and underpowered - not much here to push a significant amount of damage from the steeds and you can clutter your board vs control and not be able to play a legit big minion like malganis with 7 steeds.

Voidcaller is indeed a good card against aggro. However I personally prefer reliability over aggro, as pulling out Mal'Ganis or Dreadsteed in unwanted situations would put you into a unfavored situation against priest/shaman/control decks. You will lose your winning conditions/lethal.

Voidcaller is indeed a good card against aggro. However I personally prefer reliability over aggro, as pulling out Mal'Ganis or Dreadsteed in unwanted situations would put you into a unfavored situation against priest/shaman/control decks. You will lose your winning conditions/lethal.

Also, never play 7 steeds.

I just feel that dreadsteed is so weak for tempo - and hate the thought that i might have to 'pay' 8 mana for two dreadsteeds if by poor luck i drew them both in a game (which is highly likely).

Steed is not the only win condition. you can also out-value, man'ganis (even w/o 6 steeds), jaraxxus, and I run nzoth instead of kel thuzad.

But to be honest, this deck can run into serious fatigue issues my way.

You may call me stupid, but I just spent 2,500 dust to craft this deck. I played one game and pulled the combo off on turn 5 (dreadsteed turn 4 + umbra turn 5). That was the most fun I've ever had in Hearthstone. Thank you for making this deck.

Keep in mind that this is a combo deck. A combo only works if you have all the components. That's why there are 2 Dreadsteed to increase your chance of drawing it. While Spiritsinger Umbra can give you 6 ponies immediately, Kel'Thuzad gives you a second way to amass your might pony army with Sacrificial Pact and Mortal Coil. I always keep a second combo at hand in case the ponies get mass sheeped or devolved.